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This Independence Day, millions of Americans will gather to watch fireworks, grill some burgers and dogs, and celebrate the hard-fought freedoms of our forefathers. But in the heady rush of red, white, and blue patriotism, it’s important to remember what those freedoms actually mean, and to examine whether they still remain intact today.

As one of our over 6 million FreedomWorks members nationwide, I urge you to contact your senators and ask that they vote NO on the nomination of David Jeremiah Barron to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. FreedomWorks staunchly opposes the potential judgeship of Mr. Barron based on the integral role he played in developing legal memos that authorized the targeted killing of American citizens overseas by the U.S. Government.

Tapping the News -- Civil Liberties -- July 29"Today on "This Week," Glenn Greenwald - the reporter who broke the story about the National Security Agency's surveillance programs - claimed that those NSA programs allowed even low-level analysts to search the private emails and phone calls of Americans.

Tapping the News -- July 26th -- Civil Liberties"The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet companies divulge users' stored passwords, according to two industry sources familiar with these orders, which represent an escalation in surveillance techniques that has not previously been disclosed.

In her speech before the annual NAACP conference, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said ““The Affordable Care Act is the most powerful law for reducing health disparities since Medicare and Medicaid were created in 1965, the same year the Voting Rights Act was also enacted…The same arguments against change, the same fear and misinformation that opponents used then are the same ones opponents are spreading now.

Last week, three presidents of the largest unions sent an open letter to Congress demanding reforms to ObamaCare. James P. Hoffa, General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Joseph Hansen, International President of UFCW, and D. Taylor, President of UNITE-HERE, have some serious concerns on how ObamaCare will hurt their members.